nView Live – a free Blender add-on to improve viewport performance

Magnusson writes: This add-on automatically toggles an object’s visibility setting based on its current visibility in the viewport. This helps optimize viewport performance. The main focus is to… | Continue reading


@blendernation.com | 2 years ago

Unreal Engine 5 Lumen vs. Blender Cycles X

Julian Pössnicker writes: This is a short comparison between Cycles-X and Unreal Engine 5`s Lumen render engine. The settings are the same. This video is only for demonstrating the limitations of the… | Continue reading


@blendernation.com | 2 years ago

Octavio Mendez Passed Away

It is with great sadness that I must report we lost a great community member today. Octavio Mendez, a long-time cornerstone of the Mexican Blender and open source community, has passed away after fighting the Corona virus. Claudio Malefico Andaur contacted me about this, and shar … | Continue reading


@blendernation.com | 4 years ago

AMD Releases Radeon ProRender 2.1

Free GPU renderer now supports Blender 2.81 - and 'full spectrum rendering' on Linux and Windows. | Continue reading


@blendernation.com | 4 years ago

Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M Epic MegaGrant

This just in: Epic Games will be supporting the Blender Foundation with a donation of $1.2 MILLION DOLLARS, to be delivered over a period of three years. July 15, 2019 (Cary, NC) – Epic Games, as part of the company’s $100 million Epic MegaGrants program, is awarding the Blender … | Continue reading


@blendernation.com | 4 years ago

Blender turns 25 years old

25 years ago, the very first version of Blender started working, and Ton looks back on that time. What are your earliest memories of Blender? Ton writes: Today is the 25th birthday of Blender! During the xmas holidays of 1993, Ton Roosendaal started working on the Blender softwar … | Continue reading


@blendernation.com | 5 years ago

Next Gen – Blender Production by Tangent Animation on Netflix

A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl's life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots, and a scheming madman. Next Gen, a Netflix Film, launches Sept 7. Last week the news broke that Tangent Animation created 'Next Gen' - and that this full … | Continue reading


@blendernation.com | 5 years ago